Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 29, 1907

— A fire in the business district of Cincinnati, August 22, caused a property loss of $1,000,000.

— Cholera is reported to have broken out at Shanghai, and among the cases are several Europeans who have succumbed.

— Eighteen cases of yellow fever have been reported from Cuba. Two full members of the American hospital corps have died of the disease.

— On August 14 the Belfast, Ireland, strike was brought to an end by mutual concessions. The carters will obtain an increase of pay, and the employers maintain an open shop.

— Sixteen deaths from bubonic plague are reported from southern Manchuria, and five cases, four of them fatal, have occurred among the poorer class of foreigners in San Francisco.

— Now that the state prohibitory law for Georgia has become a fact, and will go into operation at the beginning of the year, the friends of temperance are rejoicing over the prospect that the Mississippi Legislature at its next session will pass a prohibitory law. Both candidates for governor have also declared themselves in favor of prohibition.

— The city of Geneva, Switzerland, has finally decided upon the separation of church and state. The Great Council of State decided in favor of such action about the middle of June by a vote of sixty to twenty-three; and now the people have voted for disestablishment by a majority of 834.

— The commercial telegraphers still continue on strike, but the railroad operators have not joined them. At one of the repeating stations in Arizona the operators were fired upon three times during one night, but no casualties were reported. They appealed to the governor for protection.

— Russia is said to be in a very peaceful and orderly state at the present time, yet according to government report 54 officers were killed and 47 wounded, and 95 men were killed and 52 wounded, during the month of July. During the same period 274 persons were exiled from St. Petersburg for political offenses.

— The anti-clerical violence in Italy is still unabated. Churches are set on fire, and ecclesiastics jeered, and even stoned in the streets. Even the pope’s secretary of state, Cardinal Merry del Val, was attacked while driving near Rome. It is now reported that the published reports of the scandals in the school and home for orphans were the product of a perverted imagination. The government will propose a bill for the regular inspection of all institutions, lay or clerical, used as homes or schools for children or young people. The Vatican will oppose this as an infringement of religious liberty.

— General Drude, with 3,000 troops camped near Casablanca, has successfully defended the city and withstood numerous attacks by the tribesmen, greatly outnumbering his own force. The pasha of Casablanca is a prisoner on a French war-ship, the second officer of the ship taking his place as governor of the city. Under his rule the city is being cleared of the results of the bombardment, which is estimated to have cost 1,000 lives and $1,000,000 worth of property. So far there have been no massacres in other parts, but French ships are patrolling the coast continually. The foreign residents of Fez dare not leave the city for fear of precipitating a massacre. The Knauss tribesmen appear to have taken charge of General Maclean, and would have freed him, but on hearing of the bombardment of Casablanca were so enraged that they gave him back to Raisuli, who has secreted his prisoner, and no news has come from him for several days.